Dichroic Alchemy-Volume I
This is a finely crafted intro to Dichroic
Alchemy which features a number of artists working dichroic in their
own styles. The property of the glass to sparkle grabs the attention
of the viewer right away, and the montages of beautiful pieces,
set against stationary and moving backgrounds, keeps one's attention
sharply focused.
With a run down of tools, the location of the
sweet spot on a number of different torches, and photography from
a number of different angles, this film does a great job of introducing
the Dichroic Alchemy line of products. Each section is preceded
by a listing of the glass and tools used in the demo. the first
section on using the images talks the viewer through the process,
carefully pointing out how to manipulate the surrounding glass so
as not to distort the image. With this basic information safely
tucked away, each following section introduces and artist, their
specialty, and then simply lets the viewer watch and learn. The
benefit is that one can concentrate solely on the visual process
of creating each piece, picking up styles and ideas to apply to
their own work.
The upbeat music, glowing glass, and varying
artists and techniques makes this video a must have for all those
who use or want to use dichro.
Barbara, Northstar Glassworks
Check it out!
Dichroic Alchemy's new video on how to use dichroic boro answers
just about every dichroic question an artist may have. The video
is much more than an informational tape. It easily transitions into
the teaching of techniques that will add to anyone's flameworking
art.
With great footage and explanation of Dichroic Encasement,
Image Marbles, Cane Building, Montage, Dichroic Tube making
using, Lattachino and Galaxy Marbles, I was left with only one
question.................
Why didn't I buy Dichro at the same time as the video?
I was excited about jumping on the torch and melt some dichro!
Ron Bearer Jr.
Art Glass House
This is a well timed video for anyone who is
excited about working in dichroic on borosilicate glass. I am a
long time user and enthusiast for the sparkle of dichroic glass.
This new video by Dichroic Alchemy is packed full of useful information
and images to help the interested torch workers out there in glassland
to jump in and successfully
integrate the use of dichroic colors and laser cut images into
their work.
The video uses a number of different borosilicate
dichroic artist to do the different demos to give the viewer the
opportunity to see the studio set ups of each artist. This wonderful
occurrence gives the viewer a chance to see how other working torch
artist arrange their studios and the tools that they use while working
borosilicate dichroic.
While viewing this video, it is clearly shown how differently
borosilicate dichroic is worked in comparison to regular clear or
colored borosilicate. If a torch artist is to work successfully
in the medium of borosilicate dichroic, the directions given in
this video will be of great help in minimizing unsuccessful attempts
at incorporating
borosilicate dichroic into their work.
I highly recommend this video to other torch
artists and am
thrilled with the huge leaps in creativity that I am seeing
in the borosilicate glass art community. It is great to see
such generous sharing of information among individuals involved
in borosilicate glass art as well as the torch working community
in general. Keep up the good work!
Patricia Frantz Beads
 VHS
$39.95 |
 DVD
$49.95 |
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Up
close footage... see the flame, hear the torch, learn the secrets!
Starting
from the begining and moving into highly skilled style by impressive artists,
this video has something for everyone.
•Rake
clear or colored glass onto the back of the strip being careful not to
let the flame touch the dichro.
